Writing Life Stories

Another Sunday has passed and here I am with my sister again. We have had a good visit and I spent several hours with my niece, Lee. ...

Writer Madeleine L’Engle says of grief, in her book Two-Part Invention, that it “has to be worked through. It is like walking through water....

A Gift Returned By Glenda C. Beall   I hear him singing on the deck, That rich baritone that won me the first day we met. Like Sin...

My readers know I love animals, especially dogs and horses. My horse, Pretty Thing, lived to be 32 years old and was my darling. My poodle, ...

A few years ago, after my husband died. I saw a call for submissions for this book, On Our Own, Widowhood for Smarties . I decided ...

This past week has been a sad one for me because I have heard bad news from several sources. One of my dearest friends has been...

With many of my friends losing their lifelong partners these days, I picked up my copy of On Our Own, Widowhood for Smarties, published b...

Four years ago, early morning, I awoke, exhausted, in a small sparse room in a hospice center where I had stayed round the clock for severa...

One day this week I stopped by Curiosity Books in Murphy, NC. I noticed an anthology, On Our Own, Widowhood for Smarties , was in the win...

After a long and busy week, Saturday was special for me. I joined my sister and friends to celebrate a birthday at the Oar House in Dahloneg...

When we lose our loved ones, especially after we begin losing our siblings, our mortality rears up and roars at us. How long do we have lef...

Silver Boomer Books has published an anthology, On Our Own - Widowhood for Smarties , and I am proud to have two of my poems, Sleeping Alon...

How much suffering must one person bear? In August, while in the hospital recovering from surgery on her hip , her husband died suddenly on ...

Tonight while visiting another blog , I was touched by a piece written for those who have children born with disabilities. It is all about ...

Grief is not a problem to be cured. It is simply a statement that you have loved someone.

What a day! Spring is everywhere here on the side of a mountain in western NC. I talked with Dr. Gene Hirsch, poet and generous man who liv...

Ginny Walsh of Hayesville, NC relates a veterans day story about her brother, Eddie Fields The last communication we had from my brother, E...

This sweet thing is Misty, my sister's 14 year old cocker spaniel. Like a ninety year old person, Misty doesn't see very well and c...